Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

Comic Cute from MAC is a cute (haha) soft coral. I love the color so much because it makes my skin look tanned. Only the formula is tricky. So far this is my only nail polish from MAC and I hope not all their polishes are so tricky to apply. Comic Cute is a creme-jelly polish but can only be applyed streaky and with bald spots. I needed three coats to level that out and get a neat look. But I have to admit that I already wore this polish three times this year and that is quite a lot for a nail polish junkie like me!

For a long time I didn't feel like trying Grab. In the bottle and an swatch pictures it looked like a boring dusty pink. But when I applied Grab on my nails I was surprised to see that it looked rather like a warm plum on me. I like that much more! Application was easy and this polish is wonderfully self leveling.

Today I am showing you my latest spontaneous purchase: CATRICE Mint Me Up! That is a dusty mint green nail polish with golden shimmer and microglitter in bronze. Luckily the glitter is clearly visible on the nails. I haven't bought any CATRICE polishes for a long time because I had some bad experiences with their durability. But this polish looked almost like new after one day of wearing time. There was only very delicate tip wear.

You probably know what "dosh" is. If not: It's a british word for money, cash, dough, bucks.

This is my second nail polish from Butter London. Usually they are faaaar too pricy in my opinion but when I see an opaque nail polish packed with glitter I might make an exception.

Dosh is an olive green polish with micro glitter in gold, silver and green. In the sun I could even see red sparkle. Sadly this polish is a little sheer, after three coats the visible nail line is not entirely covered. I used my essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer but this made the polish shrink. Another top coat or longer drying time might solve this problem.

Strawberry Pink is a beautiful summer nail polish in coralwith golden glitter. Sadly I have grown tired of the Sugar Mat polishes after wearing OPI's Liquid Sand polishes again. The Liquid Sand polishes are more gritty and more durable than the Sugar Mat polishes. Also the Sugar Mat polishes wear off their gritty texture after a short time and get more smooth, especially on the tips. The Liquid Sand polishes keep their gritty texture for days (and I love it to touch the raw nails ;-) ).

I am very glad to show you Solitaire today. Solitaire is a white textured polish with silver glitter and a pearly finish. Usually I dislike a pearly finish and my opinion is that it is only suitable for older ladies. But the pearly finish goes so great with the white textured polish! Until now this is by far my favorite textured polish. It will also be a great nail polish for winter because it looks like snow that glistenes in the sun.

The formula is perfect. On the pictures I am wearing two very thin coats and a thicker coat. But two average thick coats should be enough.

I have already shown you DJ Play That Song and Boom Boom Room from essie's latest neon collection. Both polishes were pretty sheer and had a troubling formula. But Shake Your $$ Maker(s) (on my bottle it's Makers) is even worse. On other blogs I have read that this polish is very sheer so I applyed it over two coats of China Glaze Keep Calm Paint On. Anyway I had to apply three coats of Shake Your $$ Maker(s) to level it out and get it opaque. But worse: This polish needs eeeeeendless time to dry. Between applying the coats I waited 10 minutes but after two hours this polish still wasn't dry and full of quirks.

Back in April I ordered in pleseant anticipation three Liquid Sand polishes in the USA from OPI's latest Bond Girl collection. Sadly the package was lost on its way to me. Luckily the shop owner sent me the three polishes a second time. I am so happy with them! This they are (from left to right):

Jinx, Pussy Galore & Solitaire

Right now I am wearing Solitaire (swatches will follow soon). And I can already tell you that Solitaire is different than all my other textured polishes and I fell in love with it! :-D

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

Red. A classical and beautiful nail polish color. It was hard for me to pick one red polish. But I chose KIKO 430 Chili Pepper Red (from the Sun Pearl Collection) because I never used it before. And this polish is so beautiful!

Chili Pepper Red is a pinkish red with golden glitter. This polish made me think of OPI The Spy Who Loved Me (from the James Bond Collection) so I added an older picture of that polish. The Spy Who Loved Me is a rather orange-ish red but otherwise the two polishes are much alike.

The formula of Chili Pepper Red was good as always with KIKO polishes. If The Spy Who Loved Me is not part of your collection you should get KIKO 430 Chili Pepper Red!